Book Review: Happiness is All We Want by Ashutosh Mishra

Reading self -help books are hard to graze by. But I was mildly surprised at how this book kept me alert and observant without drawling on the edges of being pedantic.  The book quite aptly focuses on the three pivotal vehicles for a happy state of being, mainly mental, physical & spiritual. The author has quite …

Book Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

How different does a book have to be to haunt you for days? This book surprisingly left me with an errie thought creeping up my spine like waves in a woozy ocean taking the shape of a spider. It is a delectably simple yet deceptive writing that jabs into an extraordinary depth & emotional resonance …

Book Review: Second Chance by Dr. Sandeep Jatwa

The plot of the book is doused in 'What goes around comes around' theme. The protagonist of the book is Shekhar, who turns around his life by a full 360 degree upon given a second chance. The book title leaves nothing much for imagination for the reader as it takes an expected plunge into magical …

Book Review: My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

Lately, I have been reading quite a lot of fictional tales with the backdrop of gothic atmosphere and I have developed quite a fascination for it.  After having devoured Daphne du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’, I had to read ‘My Cousin Rachel’.  With a similar disposition and temperament of a young, meek and inexperienced protagonist similar to …

Book Review: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Set amidst the backdrop of Spanish Civil War and the fall of Barcelona, Carlos Ruiz Zafón weaves a gothic atmosphere for the readers in a story that is aptly categorized as Magical Realism. This is a coming of age story of the protagonist. A story narrating the riled, long yearning desire, pining, underage hankering and …

Book Review: Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca

75 years plus and yet the charm of Daphne’s Rebecca never fades away. This book held me in its feverish grip and I was bound by Daphne’s mystique fictional house aptly named, ‘Manderley’. The book is marked as a Gothic romance and feeds on the primal fear and paranoia of the protagonist in the book …

Penchant for running

Why do you run?  What am I running from?  Who am I running for? Where I am running to? These are the questions every runner is asked. All are excellent questions, though addictions are never neatly defined. When people ask me why I run for days on end, I’ve often been tempted to answer with …

Little She Be

This poem talks about my love affair with my 2 year old niece, Siya who is characteristically as mischievous as a Howler from Harry Potter & as adorable as Anne( with an E) from The Green Gables.